Traffic statistics collection method and apparatus, and terminal device

ABSTRACT

The embodiments of the present invention are used in a traffic statistics collection process. A traffic statistics collection method includes: when a modem detects a first IP packet, obtaining a first IP address of the first IP packet, and obtaining a packet length of the first IP packet; obtaining, from an in-memory database, an APN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet; and when the APN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet is an APN of a first PDN, adding the packet length of the first IP packet to a first statistics value of VoLTE traffic, where the first PDN is a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a national stage of International Application No.PCT/CN2015/076655, filed on Apr. 15, 2015, which is hereby incorporatedby reference in its entirety.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to the communications field, and inparticular, to a traffic statistics collection method and apparatus, anda terminal device.

BACKGROUND

With social development, it is becoming increasingly popular to accessthe Internet by using a mobile phone. Traffic is generated when a useraccesses the Internet by using a mobile phone. The traffic generatedduring access to the Internet may be obtained by using a trafficstatistics collection function built in a system of the mobile phone orobtained through statistics collection by using third-party softwareinstalled on the mobile phone, making it convenient for the user toquery the traffic.

In the prior art, because a protocol stack used for a data service isdeployed on an application processor (Application processor, AP) side ofa mobile phone, during statistics collection of traffic generated duringaccess of a user to the Internet, a traffic statistics collectionfunction built in a system of the mobile phone and third-party softwareinstalled on the mobile phone are both implemented based on the AP ofthe mobile phone. That is, the AP of the mobile phone may collectstatistics about the traffic generated during access to the Internet,and present the traffic to the user by using the traffic statisticscollection function built in the system of the mobile phone or thethird-party software installed on the mobile phone. It is well knownthat a Long Term Evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE) network emerges asmobile communications technologies develop. The LTE network can provideusers with high-speed data services and can also provide users withhigh-quality audio-video services by using a voice over LTE (English:Voice Over LTE, VoLTE for short) technology. In this case, traffic isgenerated when a user makes an audio-video call by using the LTEnetwork.

However, a protocol stack used for the audio-video service is usuallynot deployed on the AP side of the mobile phone. As a result, statisticsabout the traffic generated when the user makes the audio-video call byusing the LTE network cannot be collected.

SUMMARY

The present invention provides a traffic statistics collection methodand apparatus, and a terminal device, so as to resolve a problem thatstatistics about traffic generated when a user makes an audio-video callby using an LTE network cannot be collected.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a trafficstatistics collection method is provided, including:

when a modem detects a first Internet Protocol IP packet, obtaining afirst IP address of the first IP packet, and obtaining a packet lengthof the first IP packet;

obtaining, by the modem from an in-memory database, an access point nameAPN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet; and

when the APN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IPpacket is an APN of a first public data network PDN, adding, by themodem, the packet length of the first IP packet to a first statisticsvalue of voice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic, where thefirst PDN is a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTEservice.

With reference to the first aspect, in a first possible implementation,before the detecting, by a modem, a first Internet Protocol IP packet,the method further includes:

obtaining, by the modem, an IP address of the first PDN; and

storing, by the modem, the IP address of the first PDN and the APN ofthe first PDN corresponding to each other in the in-memory database.

With reference to the first aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementation, in another possible implementation, the method furtherincludes:

obtaining, by the modem, a second statistics value of the VoLTE trafficthat is obtained through statistics collection by an applicationprocessor AP; and

adding, by the modem, the second statistics value of the VoLTE trafficto the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

With reference to the first aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation, the obtaining, bythe modem, a second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that isobtained through statistics collection by an application processor APincludes:

receiving, by the modem, the second statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic that is sent by the AP; or

querying, by the modem, traffic data obtained through statisticscollection by the AP, to obtain the second statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic.

With reference to the first aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation, the obtaining, bythe modem, an IP address of the first PDN includes:

sending, by the modem, a first PDN registration request to a networkside, where the first PDN registration request includes the APN of thefirst PDN, so that the network side obtains the IP address of the firstPDN according to the APN of the first PDN; and

receiving, by the modem, the IP address of the first PDN that is sent bythe network side.

With reference to the first aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation, the method furtherincludes:

determining, by the modem, whether the first statistics value of theVoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to a limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic; and

when the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than orequal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic, transmitting, by themodem, a VoLTE service according to a handover policy, where the VoLTEservice is a VoLTE voice service or a VoLTE video service.

With reference to the first aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation, before thetransmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE service according to a handoverpolicy, the method further includes:

receiving, by the modem, the handover policy sent by the AP, where thehandover policy is sent by the AP after the AP receives a selectiontrigger of a user for the handover policy.

With reference to the first aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service and transmission of theVoLTE video service are both unrestricted; and

the transmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE service according to a handoverpolicy includes:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, transmitting, by themodem, collected voice data by using an LTE network; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, transmitting, by themodem, collected voice data and image data by using the LTE network.

With reference to the first aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service is unrestricted, andtransmission of the VoLTE video service is restricted; and

the transmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE service according to a handoverpolicy includes:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, transmitting, by themodem, collected voice data by using an LTE network; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, switching, by themodem, a video mode to a voice mode, and transmitting collected voicedata by using the LTE network.

With reference to the first aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service and transmission of theVoLTE video service are both restricted; and

the transmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE service according to a handoverpolicy includes:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, performing, by themodem, a handover from an LTE network to a 2nd generation mobilecommunications technology 2G/3rd generation mobile communicationstechnology 3G network, and transmitting collected voice data by using acircuit switched CS domain or a packet switched PS domain; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, switching, by themodem, a video mode to a voice mode, and transmitting collected voicedata by using the CS domain or the PS domain.

With reference to the first aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic, reducing a codec rate of the VoLTE voice service, and reducinga transmission parameter of the VoLTE video service; and

the transmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE service according to a handoverpolicy includes:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, reducing, by themodem, a codec rate of collected voice data; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, reducing, by themodem, a transmission parameter of collected video data, where

the transmission parameter of the video data includes one or more of thefollowing: resolution of image data in the video data, a frame rate ofimage data in the video data, or a codec rate of voice data in the videodata.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a trafficstatistics collection method is provided, including:

when an application processor AP detects a second Internet Protocol IPpacket, obtaining a second IP address of the second IP packet, andobtaining a packet length of the second IP packet;

obtaining, by the AP from an in-memory database, an access point nameAPN corresponding to the second IP address of the second IP packet; and

when the APN corresponding to the second IP address of the second IPpacket is an APN of a first public data network PDN, adding, by the AP,the packet length of the second IP packet to a second statistics valueof voice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic, where the first PDNis a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service.

With reference to the second aspect, in a possible implementation, themethod further includes:

obtaining, by the AP, a first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic thatis obtained through statistics collection by a modem;

adding, by the AP, the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic tothe second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic; and

displaying, by the AP, the second statistics value of the VoLTE trafficto a user.

With reference to the second aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation, the obtaining, bythe AP, a first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is obtainedthrough statistics collection by a modem includes:

receiving, by the AP, the first statistics value of the VoLTE trafficthat is sent by the modem; or

querying, by the AP, traffic data obtained through statistics collectionby the modem, to obtain the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

With reference to the second aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation, the method furtherincludes:

when the APN corresponding to the second IP address of the second IPpacket is an APN of a second PDN, adding, by the AP, the packet lengthof the second IP packet to a statistics value of data traffic, where thesecond PDN is a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a dataservice; and

displaying, by the AP, the statistics value of the data traffic to theuser.

With reference to the second aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation, before thedetecting, by an application processor AP, a second Internet Protocol IPpacket, the method further includes:

obtaining, by the AP, an IP address of the second PDN; and

storing, by the AP, the IP address of the second PDN and the APN of thesecond PDN corresponding to each other in the in-memory database.

With reference to the second aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation, the obtaining, bythe AP, an IP address of the second PDN includes:

sending, by the AP, a second PDN registration request to a network sideby using the modem, where the second PDN registration request includesthe APN of the second PDN, so that the network side obtains the IPaddress of the second PDN according to the APN of the second PDN; and

receiving, by the AP, the IP address of the second PDN that is sent bythe network side by using the modem.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, a trafficstatistics collection method is provided, including:

when an application processor AP detects a second Internet Protocol IPpacket, obtaining a packet length of the second IP packet;

adding, by the AP, the packet length of the second IP packet to astatistics value of traffic;

obtaining, by the AP, a first statistics value of voice over Long TermEvolution LTE VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statisticscollection by a modem; and

adding, by the AP, the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic tothe statistics value of the traffic.

With reference to the third aspect, in a possible implementation, theobtaining, by the AP, a first statistics value of voice over Long TermEvolution LTE VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statisticscollection by a modem includes:

receiving, by the AP, the first statistics value of the VoLTE trafficthat is sent by the modem; or

querying, by the AP, traffic data obtained through statistics collectionby the modem, to obtain the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a trafficstatistics collection apparatus is provided, including:

an obtaining unit, configured to: when a first Internet Protocol IPpacket is detected, obtain a first IP address of the first IP packet,obtain a packet length of the first IP packet, and obtain, from anin-memory database, an access point name APN corresponding to the firstIP address of the first IP packet; and

an addition unit, configured to: when the APN that corresponds to thefirst IP address of the first IP packet and that is obtained by theobtaining unit is an APN of a first public data network PDN, add thepacket length of the first IP packet to a first statistics value ofvoice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic, where the first PDN isa PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in a possible implementation,

the obtaining unit is further configured to obtain an IP address of thefirst PDN before the first Internet Protocol IP packet is detected; and

the apparatus further includes:

a storage unit, configured to store the IP address of the first PDN thatis obtained by the obtaining unit and the APN of the first PDNcorresponding to each other in the in-memory database.

With reference to the fourth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementation, in another possible implementation,

the obtaining unit is further configured to obtain a second statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statisticscollection by an application processor AP; and

the addition unit is further configured to add the second statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained by the obtaining unit to thefirst statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

With reference to the fourth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation, the obtaining unitis specifically configured to:

receive the second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is sent bythe AP; or

query traffic data obtained through statistics collection by the AP, toobtain the second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

With reference to the fourth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation, the obtaining unitis specifically configured to:

send a first PDN registration request to a network side, where the firstPDN registration request includes the APN of the first PDN, so that thenetwork side obtains the IP address of the first PDN according to theAPN of the first PDN; and

receive the IP address of the first PDN that is sent by the networkside.

With reference to the fourth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation, the apparatusfurther includes:

a determining unit, configured to determine whether the first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to a limiting valueof the VoLTE traffic; and

a transmission unit, configured to: when the determining unit determinesthat the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than orequal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic, transmit a VoLTEservice according to a handover policy, where the VoLTE service is aVoLTE voice service or a VoLTE video service.

With reference to the fourth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the receiving unit is further configured to: before the transmissionunit transmits the VoLTE service according to the handover policy,receive the handover policy sent by the AP, where the handover policy issent by the AP after the AP receives a selection trigger of a user forthe handover policy.

With reference to the fourth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service and transmission of theVoLTE video service are both unrestricted; and

the transmission unit is specifically configured to:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, transmit collectedvoice data by using an LTE network; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, transmit collectedvoice data and image data by using the LTE network.

With reference to the fourth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service is unrestricted, andtransmission of the VoLTE video service is restricted; and

the transmission unit is specifically configured to:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, transmit collectedvoice data by using an LTE network; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, switch a video modeto a voice mode, and transmit collected voice data by using the LTEnetwork.

With reference to the fourth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service and transmission of theVoLTE video service are both restricted; and

the transmission unit is specifically configured to:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, perform a handoverfrom an LTE network to a 2nd generation mobile communications technology2G/3rd generation mobile communications technology 3G network, andtransmit collected voice data by using a circuit switched CS domain or apacket switched PS domain; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, switch a video modeto a voice mode, and transmit collected voice data by using the CSdomain or the PS domain.

With reference to the fourth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic, reducing a codec rate of the VoLTE voice service, and reducinga transmission parameter of the VoLTE video service; and

the transmission unit is specifically configured to:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, reduce a codec rateof collected voice data; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, reduce a transmissionparameter of collected video data, where

the transmission parameter of the video data includes one or more of thefollowing: resolution of image data in the video data, a frame rate ofimage data in the video data, or a codec rate of voice data in the videodata.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, a trafficstatistics collection apparatus is provided, including:

an obtaining unit, configured to: when a second Internet Protocol IPpacket is detected, obtain a second IP address of the second IP packet,obtain a packet length of the second IP packet, and obtain, from anin-memory database, an access point name APN corresponding to the secondIP address of the second IP packet; and

an addition unit, configured to: when the APN that corresponds to thesecond IP address of the second IP packet and that is obtained by theobtaining unit is an APN of a first public data network PDN, add thepacket length of the second IP packet to a second statistics value ofvoice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic, where the first PDN isa PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service.

With reference to the fifth aspect, in a possible implementation,

the obtaining unit is further configured to obtain a first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statisticscollection by a modem;

the addition unit is further configured to add the first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic to the second statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic; and

the apparatus further includes:

a display unit, configured to display the second statistics value of theVoLTE traffic that is obtained by the addition unit to a user.

With reference to the fifth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation, the obtaining unitis specifically configured to:

receive the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is sent bythe modem; or

query traffic data obtained through statistics collection by the modem,to obtain the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

With reference to the fifth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the addition unit is further configured to: when the APN thatcorresponds to the second IP address of the second IP packet and that isobtained by the obtaining unit is an APN of a second PDN, add the packetlength of the second IP packet to a statistics value of data traffic,where the second PDN is a PDN required by a bearer that establishes adata service; and

the display unit is further configured to display the statistics valueof the data traffic that is obtained by the addition unit to the user.

With reference to the fifth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the obtaining unit is further configured to obtain an IP address of thesecond PDN before the obtaining unit detects the second InternetProtocol IP packet; and

the apparatus further includes:

a storage unit, configured to store the IP address of the second PDNthat is obtained by the obtaining unit and the APN of the second PDNcorresponding to each other in the in-memory database.

With reference to the fifth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation, the obtaining unitis specifically configured to:

send a second PDN registration request to a network side by using themodem, where the second PDN registration request includes the APN of thesecond PDN, so that the network side obtains the IP address of thesecond PDN according to the APN of the second PDN; and

receive the IP address of the second PDN that is sent by the networkside by using the modem.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, a trafficstatistics collection apparatus is provided, including:

an obtaining unit, configured to: when a second Internet Protocol IPpacket is detected, obtain a packet length of the second IP packet; and

an addition unit, configured to add the packet length of the second IPpacket that is obtained by the obtaining unit to a statistics value oftraffic, where

the obtaining unit is further configured to obtain a first statisticsvalue of voice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic that isobtained through statistics collection by a modem; and

the addition unit is further configured to add the first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained by the obtaining unit to thestatistics value of the traffic.

With reference to the sixth aspect, in a possible implementation, theobtaining unit is specifically configured to:

receive the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is sent bythe modem; or

query traffic data obtained through statistics collection by the modem,to obtain the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, a trafficstatistics collection apparatus is provided, including:

a processor, configured to: when a first Internet Protocol IP packet isdetected, obtain a first IP address of the first IP packet, obtain apacket length of the first IP packet, obtain, from an in-memorydatabase, an access point name APN corresponding to the first IP addressof the first IP packet, and when the APN corresponding to the first IPaddress of the first IP packet is an APN of a first public data networkPDN, add the packet length of the first IP packet to a first statisticsvalue of voice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic, where thefirst PDN is a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTEservice.

With reference to the seventh aspect, in a possible implementation,

the processor is further configured to obtain an IP address of the firstPDN before the first Internet Protocol IP packet is detected; and

the apparatus further includes:

a memory, configured to store the IP address of the first PDN that isobtained by the processor and the APN of the first PDN corresponding toeach other in the in-memory database.

With reference to the seventh aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementation, in another possible implementation,

the processor is further configured to: obtain a second statistics valueof the VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statistics collection byan application processor AP, and add the second statistics value of theVoLTE traffic to the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

With reference to the seventh aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the apparatus further includes a receiver, configured to receive thesecond statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is sent by the AP; or

the processor is specifically configured to query traffic data obtainedthrough statistics collection by the AP, to obtain the second statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic.

With reference to the seventh aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the apparatus further includes a transmitter, configured to send a firstPDN registration request to a network side, where the first PDNregistration request includes the APN of the first PDN, so that thenetwork side obtains the IP address of the first PDN according to theAPN of the first PDN; and

the receiver is further configured to receive the IP address of thefirst PDN that is sent by the network side.

With reference to the seventh aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the processor is further configured to: determine whether the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to alimiting value of the VoLTE traffic, and when the first statistics valueof the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value ofthe VoLTE traffic, transmit a VoLTE service according to a handoverpolicy, where the VoLTE service is a VoLTE voice service or a VoLTEvideo service.

With reference to the seventh aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the receiver is further configured to: before the processor transmitsthe VoLTE service according to the handover policy, receive the handoverpolicy sent by the AP, where the handover policy is sent by the AP afterthe AP receives a selection trigger of a user for the handover policy.

With reference to the seventh aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service and transmission of theVoLTE video service are both unrestricted; and

the processor is specifically configured to:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, transmit collectedvoice data by using an LTE network; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, transmit collectedvoice data and image data by using the LTE network.

With reference to the seventh aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service is unrestricted, andtransmission of the VoLTE video service is restricted; and

the processor is specifically configured to:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, transmit collectedvoice data by using an LTE network; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, switch a video modeto a voice mode, and transmit collected voice data by using the LTEnetwork.

With reference to the seventh aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service and transmission of theVoLTE video service are both restricted; and

the processor is specifically configured to:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, perform a handoverfrom an LTE network to a 2nd generation mobile communications technology2G/3rd generation mobile communications technology 3G network, andtransmit collected voice data by using a circuit switched CS domain or apacket switched PS domain; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, switch a video modeto a voice mode, and transmit collected voice data by using the CSdomain or the PS domain.

With reference to the seventh aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic, reducing a codec rate of the VoLTE voice service, and reducinga transmission parameter of the VoLTE video service; and

the processor is specifically configured to:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, reduce a codec rateof collected voice data; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, reduce a transmissionparameter of collected video data, where

the transmission parameter of the video data includes one or more of thefollowing: resolution of image data in the video data, a frame rate ofimage data in the video data, or a codec rate of voice data in the videodata.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, a trafficstatistics collection apparatus is provided, including:

a processor, configured to: when a second Internet Protocol IP packet isdetected, obtain a second IP address of the second IP packet, obtain apacket length of the second IP packet, obtain, from an in-memorydatabase, an access point name APN corresponding to the second IPaddress of the second IP packet, and when the APN corresponding to thesecond IP address of the second IP packet is an APN of a first publicdata network PDN, add the packet length of the second IP packet to asecond statistics value of voice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTEtraffic, where the first PDN is a PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a VoLTE service.

With reference to the eighth aspect, in a possible implementation,

the processor is further configured to: obtain a first statistics valueof the VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statistics collection by amodem, add the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic to the secondstatistics value of the VoLTE traffic, and display the second statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic to a user.

With reference to the eighth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementation, in another possible implementation,

the apparatus further includes a receiver, further configured to receivethe first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is sent by themodem; or

the processor is specifically configured to query traffic data obtainedthrough statistics collection by the modem, to obtain the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

With reference to the eighth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the processor is further configured to: when the APN corresponding tothe second IP address of the second IP packet is an APN of a second PDN,add the packet length of the second IP packet to a statistics value ofdata traffic, and display the statistics value of the data traffic tothe user, where the second PDN is a PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a data service.

With reference to the eighth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the processor is further configured to obtain an IP address of thesecond PDN before the second Internet Protocol IP packet is detected;and

the apparatus further includes:

a memory, configured to store the IP address of the second PDN that isobtained by the processor and the APN of the second PDN corresponding toeach other in the in-memory database.

With reference to the eighth aspect or the foregoing possibleimplementations, in another possible implementation,

the transmitter is further configured to send a second PDN registrationrequest to a network side by using the modem, where the second PDNregistration request includes the APN of the second PDN, so that thenetwork side obtains the IP address of the second PDN according to theAPN of the second PDN; and

the receiver is further configured to receive the IP address of thesecond PDN that is sent by the network side by using the modem.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, a trafficstatistics collection apparatus is provided, including:

a processor, configured to: when a second Internet Protocol IP packet isdetected, obtain a packet length of the second IP packet, add the packetlength of the second IP packet to a statistics value of traffic, obtaina first statistics value of voice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTEtraffic that is obtained through statistics collection by a modem, andadd the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic to the statisticsvalue of the traffic.

With reference to the ninth aspect, in a possible implementation,

the apparatus further includes a receiver, configured to receive thefirst statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is sent by the modem;or

the processor is specifically configured to query traffic data obtainedthrough statistics collection by the modem, to obtain the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

According to a tenth aspect, a terminal device is provided, including:

a modem, configured to: when a first Internet Protocol IP packet isdetected, obtain a first IP address of the first IP packet, obtain apacket length of the first IP packet, obtain, from an in-memorydatabase, an access point name APN corresponding to the first IP addressof the first IP packet, and when the APN corresponding to the first IPaddress of the first IP packet is an APN of a first public data networkPDN, add the packet length of the first IP packet to a first statisticsvalue of voice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic, where thefirst PDN is a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTEservice; and

an application processor AP, configured to: when a second IP packet isdetected, obtain a second IP address of the second IP packet, obtain apacket length of the second IP packet, obtain, from the in-memorydatabase, an APN corresponding to the second IP address of the second IPpacket, and when the APN corresponding to the second IP address of thesecond IP packet is an APN of the first PDN, add the packet length ofthe second IP packet to a second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

According to the traffic statistics collection method and apparatus, andthe terminal device that are provided in embodiments of the presentinvention, when a modem detects a first IP packet, an APN correspondingto an obtained first IP address of the first IP packet is obtained froman in-memory database according to the first IP address of the first IPpacket, and when the APN corresponding to the first IP address of thefirst IP packet is an APN of a PDN required by a bearer that establishesa VoLTE service, an obtained packet length of the first IP packet isadded to a first statistics value of VoLTE traffic, so as to collectstatistics about the VoLTE traffic. In this way, compared with the priorart in which statistics about traffic on only an AP side can becollected, statistics about traffic generated when a user makes anaudio-video call by using an LTE network is collected.

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To describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the presentinvention or in the prior art more clearly, the following brieflydescribes the accompanying drawings required for describing theembodiments or the prior art. Apparently, the accompanying drawings inthe following description show merely some embodiments of the presentinvention, and a person of ordinary skill in the art may still deriveother drawings from these accompanying drawings without creativeefforts.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a traffic statistics collection methodaccording to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a traffic statistics collection methodaccording to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a traffic statistics collection methodaccording to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a traffic statistics collection methodaccording to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of another traffic statistics collection methodaccording to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a traffic statistics collection methodaccording to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic composition diagram of a traffic statisticscollection apparatus according to another embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic composition diagram of another traffic statisticscollection apparatus according to another embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic composition diagram of a traffic statisticscollection apparatus according to another embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 10 is a schematic composition diagram of another traffic statisticscollection apparatus according to another embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 11 is a schematic composition diagram of a traffic statisticscollection apparatus according to another embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 12 is a schematic composition diagram of a traffic statisticscollection apparatus according to another embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 13 is a schematic composition diagram of a traffic statisticscollection apparatus according to another embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 14 is a schematic composition diagram of a traffic statisticscollection apparatus according to another embodiment of the presentinvention; and

FIG. 15 is a schematic composition diagram of a terminal deviceaccording to another embodiment of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

The following clearly and completely describes the technical solutionsin the embodiments of the present invention with reference to theaccompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention.Apparently, the described embodiments are merely some but not all of theembodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments obtained bya person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of thepresent invention without creative efforts shall fall within theprotection scope of the present invention.

It is well-known that, when statistics about traffic generated when auser accesses the Internet is collected, because a protocol stack usedfor a data service is deployed on an AP side of user equipment, thestatistics about the traffic generated when the user accesses theInternet may be collected based on an AP. With continuous development ofcommunications technologies, an LTE network is becoming increasinglypopular. The LTE network can provide users with high-speed data servicesand can also provide users with high-quality audio-video services byusing a VoLTE technology. However, because an (IP Multimedia Subsystem,IMS) protocol stack used for an audio-video service is usually deployedon a modem (modem) side of user equipment, statistics about trafficgenerated when a user uses the audio-video service cannot be collectedbased on an AP. A traffic statistics collection method provided by thepresent invention can collect statistics about traffic generated in aprocess in which a user uses an audio-video service. A specificimplementation process is described in detail by using the followingembodiments.

It should be noted that, the user equipment described in the embodimentsof the present invention may be a handheld device such as a mobile phoneor a tablet computer (portable Android device, PAD).

An embodiment of the present invention provides a traffic statisticscollection method. As shown in FIG. 1, the method may include thefollowing steps.

101. When a modem detects a first Internet Protocol (Internet Protocol,IP) packet, obtain a first IP address of the first IP packet, and obtaina packet length of the first IP packet.

When the first IP packet is a packet received by the modem, the first IPaddress is a source IP address of the first IP packet. When the first IPpacket is a packet that needs to be sent to a network side by the modem,the first IP address is a destination IP address of the first IP packet.

102. The modem obtains, from an in-memory database, an access point name(Access point name, APN) corresponding to the first IP address of thefirst IP packet.

The in-memory database stores at least one IP address and an APN thatcorresponds to each IP address. After obtaining the first IP address ofthe first IP packet, the modem may match the first IP address of thefirst IP packet with an IP address stored in the in-memory database, soas to obtain, from the in-memory database, the APN corresponding to thefirst IP address of the first IP packet.

103. When the APN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IPpacket is an APN of a first public data network (Public Data Network,PDN), the modem adds the packet length of the first IP packet to a firststatistics value of VoLTE traffic.

The first PDN is a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTEservice.

Specifically, after obtaining, from the in-memory database, the APNcorresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet, the modemmay determine whether the APN corresponding to the first IP address ofthe first IP packet is an APN of the PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a VoLTE service, that is, the APN of the first PDN. Afterdetermining that the APN corresponding to the first IP address of thefirst IP packet is the APN of the first PDN, the modem adds the obtainedpacket length of the first IP packet to the first statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic, so as to collect statistics about the VoLTE traffic.

Further, to enable the modem to determine whether a packet length of adetected IP packet needs to be added to the VoLTE traffic, before thedetecting, by a modem, a first IP packet in step 101, the trafficstatistics collection method provided in this embodiment of the presentinvention may further include: obtaining, by the modem, an IP address ofthe first PDN, and storing the IP address of the first PDN and the APNof the first PDN corresponding to each other in the in-memory database.

Further, considering that some VoLTE services using an IMS protocolstack may be deployed on an AP side, to collect statistics about allVoLTE traffic, the traffic statistics collection method provided in thisembodiment of the present invention may further include: obtaining, bythe modem, a second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that isobtained through statistics collection by an AP, and adding the secondstatistics value of the VoLTE traffic to the first statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic.

Further, in a possible implementation, the obtaining, by the modem, asecond statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained throughstatistics collection by an AP maybe specifically: receiving, by themodem, the second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is sent bythe AP.

Alternatively, in another possible implementation, the obtaining, by themodem, a second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is obtainedthrough statistics collection by an AP is specifically: querying, by themodem, traffic data obtained through statistics collection by the AP, toobtain the second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

Further, the obtaining, by the modem, an IP address of the first PDN maybe specifically: sending, by the modem, a first PDN registration requestto a network side, where the first PDN registration request includes theAPN of the first PDN, so that the network side can obtain the IP addressof the first PDN according to the APN of the first PDN; and receiving,by the modem, the IP address of the first PDN that is sent by thenetwork side.

Further, when the VoLTE traffic is restricted, to save user trafficwithout affecting use of an audio-video service by a user, the trafficstatistics collection method provided in this embodiment of the presentinvention further includes: determining, by the modem, whether the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to alimiting value of the VoLTE traffic; and when the first statistics valueof the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value ofthe VoLTE traffic, transmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE service accordingto a handover policy, where the VoLTE service is a VoLTE voice serviceor a VoLTE video service.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment of the present invention,when all VoLTE services using an IMS protocol stack are deployed on amodem side, the first statistics value used by the modem to determinewhether the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limiting valueof the VoLTE traffic is the first statistics value that is obtainedthrough statistics collection by the modem in step 103. When VoLTEservices using an IMS protocol stack are deployed on the modem side andthe AP side, the first statistics value used by the modem to determinewhether the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limiting valueof the VoLTE traffic is a first statistics value. The first statisticsvalue is obtained after the second statistics value of the VoLTE trafficthat is obtained through statistics collection by the AP is added to thefirst statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

Further, before the determining, by the modem, whether the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to alimiting value of the VoLTE traffic, the traffic statistics collectionmethod provided in this embodiment of the present invention furtherincludes: receiving, by the modem, the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic that is sent by the AP.

Further, to enable adjustment of a transmission solution of the VoLTEservice according to a selection by a user when the VoLTE traffic isrestricted, before the transmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE serviceaccording to a handover policy, the traffic statistics collection methodprovided in this embodiment of the present invention further includes:receiving, by the modem, the handover policy sent by the AP, where thehandover policy is sent by the AP after the AP receives a selectiontrigger of the user for the handover policy.

Further, the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of theVoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of theVoLTE traffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service and transmissionof the VoLTE video service are both unrestricted. The transmitting, bythe modem, a VoLTE service according to a handover policy may bespecifically:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, transmitting, by themodem, collected voice data by using an LTE network; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, transmitting, by themodem, collected voice data and image data by using the LTE network.

Further, the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of theVoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of theVoLTE traffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service is unrestricted,and transmission of the VoLTE video service is restricted. Thetransmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE service according to a handoverpolicy may be specifically:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, transmitting, by themodem, collected voice data by using an LTE network; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, switching, by themodem, a video mode to a voice mode, and transmitting collected voicedata by using the LTE network.

Further, the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of theVoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of theVoLTE traffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service and transmissionof the VoLTE video service are both restricted. The transmitting, by themodem, a VoLTE service according to a handover policy may bespecifically:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, performing, by themodem, a handover from an LTE network to a 2nd Generation mobilecommunications technology/3rd Generation mobile communicationstechnology (2nd Generation/3rd Generation, 2G/3G) network, andtransmitting collected voice data by using a circuit switched (CircuitSwitching, CS) domain or a packet switched (Packet Switch, PS) domain.

The performing, by the modem, a handover from an LTE network to a 2G/3Gnetwork, and transmitting collected voice data by using a CS domainrefers to a circuit switched fallback (Circuit Switched FallBack, CSFB)technology.

When the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, the modem switches avideo mode to a voice mode, and transmits collected voice data by usingthe CS domain or the PS domain.

Further, the handover policy is: when the first statistics value of theVoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of theVoLTE traffic, reducing a codec rate of the VoLTE voice service, andreducing a transmission parameter of the VoLTE video service. Thetransmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE service according to a handoverpolicy may be specifically:

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, reducing, by themodem, a codec rate of collected voice data; and

when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, reducing, by themodem, a transmission parameter of collected video data, where thetransmission parameter of the video data includes one or more of thefollowing: resolution of image data in the video data, a frame rate ofimage data in the video data, or a codec rate of voice data in the videodata.

Further, to enable displaying of VoLTE traffic obtained throughstatistics collection to the user for the user to query, after step 103,the traffic statistics collection method provided in this embodiment ofthe present invention further includes: sending, by the modem, the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic to the AP.

According to the traffic statistics collection method provided in thisembodiment of the present invention, when a modem detects a first IPpacket, an APN corresponding to an obtained first IP address of thefirst IP packet is obtained from an in-memory database according to thefirst IP address of the first IP packet, and when the APN correspondingto the first IP address of the first IP packet is an APN of a PDNrequired by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service, an obtainedpacket length of the first IP packet is added to a first statisticsvalue of VoLTE traffic, so as to collect statistics about the VoLTEtraffic. In this way, compared with the prior art in which statisticsabout traffic on only an AP side can be collected, statistics abouttraffic generated when a user makes an audio-video call by using an LTEnetwork is collected.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a trafficstatistics collection method. As shown in FIG. 2, the method may includethe following steps.

201. When an AP detects a second IP packet, obtain a second IP addressof the second IP packet, and obtain a packet length of the second IPpacket.

When the second IP packet is a packet received by the AP, the second IPaddress is a source IP address of the second IP packet. When the secondIP packet is a packet that needs to be sent to a network side by the AP,the second IP address is a destination IP address of the second IPpacket.

202. The AP obtains, from an in-memory database, an APN corresponding tothe second IP address of the second IP packet.

The in-memory database stores at least one IP address and an APN thatcorresponds to each IP address. After obtaining the second IP address ofthe second IP packet, the AP may match the second IP address of thesecond IP packet with an IP address stored in the in-memory database, soas to obtain, from the in-memory database, the APN corresponding to thesecond IP address of the second IP packet.

203. When the APN corresponding to the second IP address of the secondIP packet is an APN of a first PDN, the AP adds the packet length of thesecond IP packet to a second statistics value of VoLTE traffic.

The first PDN is a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTEservice.

Specifically, an operator may probably set different charging rules fora data service and a VoLTE service that are provided to a user in an LTEnetwork. In this case, statistics about traffic generated when the useruses the data service and statistics about traffic generated when theuser uses the VoLTE service need to be collected separately. Therefore,after obtaining, from the in-memory database, the APN corresponding tothe second IP address of the second IP packet, the AP may determinewhether the APN corresponding to the second IP address of the second IPpacket is an APN of a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTEservice, that is, the APN of the first PDN. After determining that theAPN corresponding to the second IP address of the second IP packet isthe APN of the first PDN, the AP adds the obtained packet length of thesecond IP packet to the second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

Further, to enable a modem to collect statistics about all VoLTEtraffic, after step 203, the traffic statistics collection methodprovided in this embodiment of the present invention may furtherinclude: sending, by the AP, the second statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic to the modem.

Further, the traffic statistics collection method provided in thisembodiment of the present invention may further include: obtaining, bythe AP, a first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is obtainedthrough statistics collection by the modem; adding, by the AP, the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic to the second statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic; and displaying, by the AP, the second statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic to the user.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment of the present invention,when VoLTE services using an IMS protocol stack are deployed on a modemside and on an AP side, the second statistics value of the VoLTE trafficthat is displayed to the user by the AP is a second statistics valuethat is obtained after the AP adds the first statistics value of theVoLTE traffic that is obtained through statistics collection by themodem to the second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic. Certainly,when all VoLTE services using an IMS protocol stack are deployed on themodem side, after obtaining the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic that is obtained through statistics collection by the modem, theAP may directly display the first statistics value of the VoLTE trafficthat is obtained through statistics collection by the modem to the user.

Further, in a possible implementation, the obtaining, by the AP, a firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained throughstatistics collection by the modem may be specifically: receiving, bythe AP, the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is sent bythe modem.

Alternatively, in another possible implementation, the obtaining, by theAP, a first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is obtainedthrough statistics collection by the modem may be specifically:querying, by the AP, traffic data obtained through statistics collectionby the modem, to obtain the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

Further, the traffic statistics collection method provided in thisembodiment of the present invention may further include: when the APNcorresponding to the second IP address of the second IP packet is an APNof a second PDN, adding, by the AP, the packet length of the second IPpacket to a statistics value of data traffic, so as to separatelycollect statistics about the data traffic and the VoLTE traffic; anddisplaying, by the AP, the statistics value of the data traffic to theuser, where the second PDN is a PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a data service.

Further, to enable the AP to determine whether a packet length of adetected IP packet is to be added to the data traffic or is to be addedto the VoLTE traffic, before the detecting, by an AP, a second IP packetin step 201, the traffic statistics collection method provided in thisembodiment of the present invention may further include: obtaining, bythe AP, an IP address of the second PDN, and storing the IP address ofthe second PDN and the APN of the second PDN corresponding to each otherin the in-memory database.

Further, the obtaining, by the AP, an IP address of the second PDN maybespecifically: sending, by the AP, a second PDN registration request to anetwork side by using the modem, where the second PDN registrationrequest includes the APN of the second PDN, so that the network sideobtains the IP address of the second PDN according to the APN of thesecond PDN; and receiving, by the AP, the IP address of the second PDNthat is sent by the network side by using the modem.

According to the traffic statistics collection method provided in thisembodiment of the present invention, when an AP detects a second IPpacket, an APN corresponding to an obtained second IP address of thesecond IP packet is obtained from an in-memory database according to thesecond IP address of the second IP packet, and when the APNcorresponding to the second IP address of the second IP packet is an APNof a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service, anobtained packet length of the second IP packet is added to a secondstatistics value of VoLTE traffic, so as to separately collectstatistics about data traffic and the VoLTE traffic.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a trafficstatistics collection method. As shown in FIG. 3, the method may includethe following steps.

301. When an AP detects a second IP packet, obtain a packet length ofthe second IP packet.

302. The AP adds the packet length of the second IP packet to astatistics value of traffic.

After obtaining the packet length of the second IP packet, the AP maydirectly add the packet length of the second IP packet to the statisticsvalue of the traffic.

303. The AP obtains a first statistics value of VoLTE traffic that isobtained through statistics collection by a modem.

To ensure that statistics about all traffic generated in a process inwhich a user uses user equipment can be collected, the AP further needsto obtain the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that isobtained through statistics collection by the modem.

Further, in a possible implementation, step 303 may be specifically:receiving, by the AP, the first statistics value of the VoLTE trafficthat is sent by the modem. Alternatively, in another possibleimplementation, step 303 may be specifically: querying, by the AP,traffic data obtained through statistics collection by the modem, toobtain the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

304. The AP adds the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic to thestatistics value of the traffic.

After obtaining the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that isobtained through statistics collection by the modem, the AP may add theobtained first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic to the statisticsvalue of the traffic, so as to collect statistics about all the trafficgenerated when the user uses the user equipment. Further, the AP mayfurther display the statistics value of the traffic that is obtainedthrough statistics collection to the user, making it convenient for theuser to query the statistics value of the traffic.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment of the present invention,the statistics value of the traffic that is displayed to the user by theAP is a statistics value of the traffic that is obtained after the APadds the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is obtainedthrough statistics collection by the modem to the statistics value ofthe traffic.

According to the traffic statistics collection method provided in thisembodiment of the present invention, when an AP detects a second IPpacket, an obtained packet length of the second IP packet is added to astatistics value of traffic, a first statistics value of VoLTE trafficthat is obtained through statistics collection by a modem is obtained,and the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic is added to thestatistics value of the traffic. Compared with the prior art in whichstatistics about traffic on only an AP side can be collected,completeness of traffic statistics collection is ensured.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a trafficstatistics collection method. As shown in FIG. 4, the method may includethe following steps.

401. A modem obtains an IP address of a first PDN.

When user equipment is powered on, or an airplane mode of the userequipment is turned off, or the user equipment is handed over from cellcoverage of a 2G/3G network to cell coverage of an IMS LTE network, orthe user equipment is handed over from cell coverage of an LTE networkthat does not support a VoLTE service to cell coverage of an LTE networkthat supports a VoLTE service, or the user equipment receives aninstruction that is sent by a network side and that is used foractivating a PDN required for establishing a VoLTE service andreinitiates PDN activation according to the instruction and theactivation succeeds, the modem obtains a PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a VoLTE service, that is, the IP address of the first PDN.

The obtaining, by a modem, an IP address of a first PDN may specificallyinclude: sending, by the modem, a first PDN registration requestincluding an APN of the first PDN to a network side. When the networkside receives the first PDN registration request, the network side mayobtain the IP address of the first PDN according to the APN of the firstPDN, and then send the obtained IP address of the first PDN to themodem. In this case, the modem may receive the IP address of the firstPDN that is sent by the network side.

402. The modem stores the IP address of the first PDN and an APN of thefirst PDN corresponding to each other in an in-memory database.

After obtaining the IP address of the first PDN, the modem may store theobtained IP address of the first PDN and the APN of the first PDNcorresponding to each other in the in-memory database for subsequentuse. The in-memory database is used for storing at least one IP addressand an APN that corresponds to each IP address, and data stored in thein-memory database is erased when the user equipment is powered off.

403. When the modem detects a first IP packet, obtain a first IP addressof the first IP packet, and obtain a packet length of the first IPpacket.

When the first IP packet is a packet received by the modem, the first IPaddress is a source IP address of the first IP packet. When the first IPpacket is a packet that needs to be sent to a network side by the modem,the first IP address is a destination IP address of the first IP packet.

For example, when the modem receives the first IP packet, the modem mayparse the first IP packet, to obtain a source IP address of the first IPpacket, and use the obtained source IP address of the first IP packet asthe first IP address, and may further obtain the packet length of thefirst IP packet. When the modem needs to send the first IP packet, themodem may obtain a destination IP address of the first IP packet byparsing the first IP packet, and use the obtained destination IP addressof the first IP packet as the first IP address, and may further obtainthe packet length of the first IP packet.

404. The modem obtains, from the in-memory database, an APNcorresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet.

After obtaining the first IP address of the first IP packet, the modemmay match the first IP address of the first IP packet with an IP addressstored in the in-memory database, so as to obtain, from the in-memorydatabase, the APN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IPpacket.

After the modem obtains, from the in-memory database, the APNcorresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet, todetermine whether traffic generated when the first IP packet istransmitted is VoLTE traffic, the modem may determine whether theobtained APN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IPpacket is an APN of a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTEservice, that is, the APN of the first PDN.

405. When the APN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IPpacket is the APN of the first PDN, the modem adds the packet length ofthe first IP packet to a first statistics value of VoLTE traffic.

When the modem determines that the APN corresponding to the first IPaddress of the first IP packet is the APN of the first PDN, it indicatesthat traffic generated when the first IP packet is transmitted is theVoLTE traffic. In this case, the modem may add the packet length of thefirst IP packet to the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic, soas to collect statistics about the VoLTE traffic.

When the modem determines that the obtained APN corresponding to thefirst IP address of the first IP packet is not an APN of a PDN requiredby a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service, that is, when the APNcorresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet is not theAPN of the first PDN, the modem does not perform any processing.

406. An AP obtains an IP address of a second PDN.

The second PDN is a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a dataservice. When the user equipment is powered on, or an airplane mode ofthe user equipment is turned off, or a data service of the userequipment is turned on, the AP obtains the PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a data service, that is, the IP address of the second PDN.The obtaining, by an AP, an IP address of a second PDN may specificallyinclude: sending, by the AP, a second PDN registration request thatincludes an APN of the second PDN to the network side by using themodem. When the network side receives the second PDN registrationrequest, the network side may obtain the IP address of the second PDNaccording to the APN of the second PDN, and then send the obtained IPaddress of the second PDN to the modem. After receiving the IP addressof the second PDN, the modem may send the IP address of the second PDNto the AP, so that the AP receives the IP address of the second PDN.

It should be noted that, the data service described in this embodimentof the present invention includes, but is not limited to: Internetaccess, a multimedia messaging service, mobile phone version upgrade andupdate, and searching and positioning by a global positioning system(Global Positioning System, GPS).

407. The AP stores the IP address of the second PDN and an APN of thesecond PDN corresponding to each other in the in-memory database.

After obtaining the IP address of the second PDN, the AP may store theobtained IP address of the second PDN and the APN of the second PDNcorresponding to each other in the in-memory database for subsequentuse.

408. When the AP detects a second IP packet, obtain a second IP addressof the second IP packet, and obtain a packet length of the second IPpacket.

When the second IP packet is a packet received by the AP, the second IPaddress is a source IP address of the second IP packet. When the secondIP packet is a packet that needs to be sent to a network side by the AP,the second IP address is a destination IP address of the second IPpacket.

For example, when the AP receives the second IP packet, the AP mayobtain a source IP address of the second IP packet by parsing the secondIP packet, and use the obtained source IP address of the second IPpacket as the second IP address, and may further obtain the packetlength of the second IP packet. When the AP needs to send the second IPpacket to the network side, the AP may obtain a destination IP addressof the second IP packet by parsing the second IP packet, and use theobtained destination IP address of the second IP packet as the second IPaddress, and may further obtain the packet length of the second IPpacket.

409. The AP obtains, from the in-memory database, an APN correspondingto the second IP address of the second IP packet.

After obtaining the second IP address of the second IP packet, the APmay match the second IP address of the second IP packet with an IPaddress stored in the in-memory database, so as to obtain, from thein-memory database, the APN corresponding to the second IP address ofthe second IP packet.

After the AP obtains, from the in-memory database, the APN correspondingto the second IP address of the second IP packet, to determine whethertraffic generated when the second IP packet is transmitted is VoLTEtraffic or data traffic, the AP may determine whether the obtained APNcorresponding to the second IP address of the second IP packet is an APNof a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service, that is,the APN of the first PDN, or an APN of a PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a data service, that is, the APN of the second PDN.

410. When the APN corresponding to the second IP address of the secondIP packet is the APN of the first PDN, the AP adds the packet length ofthe second IP packet to a second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

When the AP determines that the APN corresponding to the second IPaddress of the second IP packet is the APN of the first PDN, itindicates that traffic generated when the second IP packet istransmitted is the VoLTE traffic. In this case, the AP may add thepacket length of the second IP packet to the second statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic, so as to collect statistics about the VoLTE trafficbased on the AP.

411. When the APN corresponding to the second IP address of the secondIP packet is the APN of the second PDN, the AP adds the packet length ofthe second IP packet to a statistics value of data traffic, and displaysthe statistics value of the data traffic to a user.

When the AP determines that the APN corresponding to the second IPaddress of the second IP packet is the APN of the second PDN, itindicates that traffic generated when the second IP packet istransmitted is the data traffic. In this case, the AP may add the packetlength of the second IP packet to the statistics value of the datatraffic, and may display the statistics value of the data traffic thatis obtained through statistics collection to the user, for the user toquery.

Further, after step 411 is performed, the AP may further determinewhether the statistics value of the data traffic that is obtainedthrough statistics collection is greater than or equal to a limitingvalue that is of the data traffic and that is set by the user, and whenthe statistics value of the data traffic is greater than or equal to thelimiting value that is of the data traffic and that is set by the user,restrict data that needs to be transmitted.

It should be noted that step 401 to step 405 and step 406 to step 411 inthis embodiment of the present invention are not performed in asequential order.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, when the VoLTEtraffic is restricted, to save user traffic without affecting use of anaudio-video service by the user, when all VoLTE services using an IMSprotocol stack are deployed on a modem side, after step 405 isperformed, step 414 to step 417 may be directly performed. However,considering that some VoLTE services using an IMS protocol stack may bedeployed on an AP side, before step 414 is performed, step 406 to step413 further need to be performed.

412. The modem obtains the second statistics value of the VoLTE trafficthat is obtained through statistics collection by the AP.

There may be two manners in which the modem obtains the secondstatistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained throughstatistics collection by the AP.

Manner 1: The modem receives the second statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic that is sent by the AP.

The AP may periodically report a second statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic that is obtained through statistics collection by the AP, sothat the modem may receive the second statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic that is sent by the AP.

Manner 2: The modem queries traffic data obtained through statisticscollection by the AP, to obtain the second statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic.

The modem may proactively query the traffic data obtained throughstatistics collection by the AP, to obtain the second statistics valueof the VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statistics collection bythe AP.

413. The modem adds the second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic tothe first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

After obtaining the second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that isobtained through statistics collection by the AP, the modem may add thesecond statistics value of the VoLTE traffic to the first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic, to obtain all generated VoLTE traffic.

414. The modem receives a limiting value of the VoLTE traffic that issent by the AP.

The user may set limiting values for the data traffic and the VoLTEtraffic respectively. After the limiting values are set for the datatraffic and the VoLTE traffic respectively, the AP may send the limitingvalue that is of the VoLTE traffic and that is set by the user to themodem.

415. The modem determines whether the first statistics value of theVoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of theVoLTE traffic.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment of the present invention,when all VoLTE services using an IMS protocol stack are deployed on amodem side, the first statistics value used by the modem to determinewhether the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limiting valueof the VoLTE traffic is the first statistics value that is obtainedthrough statistics collection by the modem in step 405. When VoLTEservices using an IMS protocol stack are deployed on the modem side andthe AP side, the first statistics value used by the modem to determinewhether the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limiting valueof the VoLTE traffic is a first statistics value that is obtained afterthe modem adds the second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that isobtained through statistics collection by the AP to the first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic in step 413.

416. When the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greaterthan or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic, the modemreceives a handover policy sent by the AP.

The handover policy is sent by the AP after the AP receives a selectiontrigger of the user for the handover policy. Specifically, afterreceiving the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic that is sent by theAP, the modem may determine whether the first statistics value of theVoLTE traffic that is obtained through statistics collection is greaterthan or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic, and afterdetermining that the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic isgreater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic,receive the handover policy that is selected by the user and that issent by the AP.

417. The modem transmits a VoLTE service according to the handoverpolicy.

The VoLTE service is a VoLTE voice service or a VoLTE video service.When the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than orequal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic, after the modemreceives the handover policy sent by the AP, when there is a VoLTEservice that needs to be transmitted, the modem needs to transmit theVoLTE service according to the handover policy selected by the user.

In a possible implementation, the handover policy is: when the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to thelimiting value of the VoLTE traffic, transmission of the VoLTE voiceservice and transmission of the VoLTE video service are bothunrestricted. In this case, the transmitting, by the modem, a VoLTEservice according to a handover policy may be specifically: when theVoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, transmitting, by the modem,collected voice data by using an LTE network; and when the VoLTE serviceis the VoLTE video service, transmitting, by the modem, collected voicedata and image data by using the LTE network.

In another possible implementation, the handover policy is: when thefirst statistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal tothe limiting value of the VoLTE traffic, transmission of the VoLTE voiceservice is unrestricted, and transmission of the VoLTE video service isrestricted. In this case, the transmitting, by the modem, a VoLTEservice according to a handover policy may be specifically: when theVoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, transmitting, by the modem,collected voice data by using an LTE network; and when the VoLTE serviceis the VoLTE video service, switching, by the modem, a video mode to avoice mode, and transmitting collected voice data by using the LTEnetwork.

In another possible implementation, the handover policy is: when thefirst statistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal tothe limiting value of the VoLTE traffic, transmission of the VoLTE voiceservice and transmission of the VoLTE video service are both restricted.In this case, the transmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE service accordingto a handover policy may be specifically: when the VoLTE service is theVoLTE voice service, performing a handover from an LTE network to a2G/3G network, and transmitting collected voice data by using a CSdomain or a PS domain; and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE videoservice, switching, by the modem, a video mode to a voice mode, andtransmitting collected voice data by using the CS domain or the PSdomain. Certainly, when the first statistics value of the VoLTE trafficis less than the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic, for example,statistics about the VoLTE traffic is recollected, a VoLTE function ofthe user equipment needs to be enabled again.

In another possible implementation, the handover policy is: when thefirst statistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal tothe limiting value of the VoLTE traffic, a codec rate of the VoLTE voiceservice is reduced, and a transmission parameter of the VoLTE videoservice is reduced. In this case, the transmitting, by the modem, aVoLTE service according to a handover policy may be specifically: whenthe VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, reducing, by the modem, acodec rate of collected voice data.

When the voice data is encoded by means of adaptive multirate narrowbandencoding (Adaptive Multi-Rate—Narrowband, AMR-NB), for codec rates indifferent encoding modes, refer to Table 1. When the voice data isencoded by means of adaptive multirate wideband encoding (AdaptiveMulti-Rate—Wideband, AMR-WB), for codec rates in different encodingmodes, refer to Table 2.

TABLE 1 Encoding mode Codec rate 0 4.75 kbps 1 5.15 kbps 2 5.90 kbps 36.70 kbps 4 7.40 kbps 5 7.95 kbps 6 10.20 kbps  7 12.20 kbps 

TABLE 2 Encoding mode Codec rate 0  6.60 kbps 1  8.85 kbps 2 12.65 kbps3 14.25 kbps 4 15.85 kbps 5 18.25 kbps 6 19.85 kbps 7 23.05 kbps 8 23.85kbps

It can be seen from Table 1 and Table 2 that, when a codec mannercurrently used for encoding and decoding the voice data is AMR-NB, whenthe first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equalto the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic, and the VoLTE service is theVoLTE voice service, the modem may reduce the codec rate of thecollected voice data by changing an encoding mode in the currentencoding manner. For example, if a currently used encoding mode is 4(where a corresponding codec rate is 7.40 kbps), when the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to thelimiting value of the VoLTE traffic, all voice data that needs to betransmitted is encoded and decoded by using an encoding mode 2. That is,the voice data is encoded and decoded at a codec rate of 5.90 kbps.

When a codec manner currently used for encoding and decoding the voicedata is AMR-WB, the codec rate of the collected voice data may bereduced by changing an encoding mode in the current encoding manner, andthe codec rate of the collected voice data may also be reduced bychanging the current encoding manner. For example, if a current encodingmode is 2 (where a corresponding codec rate is 12.65 kbps), when thefirst statistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal tothe limiting value of the VoLTE traffic, voice data that needs to betransmitted may be encoded and decoded by using an encoding mode 1(where a corresponding codec rate is 8.85 kbps) in the current encodingmanner. Alternatively, the current encoding manner may be AMR-NB, andencoding and decoding may be performed by using an encoding mode 7(where a corresponding codec rate is 12.20 kbps) in the AMR-NB encodingmanner.

It should be noted that, when a codec manner currently used for encodingand decoding the voice data is AMR-WB, a specific manner used forreducing the codec rate of the collected voice data may be selectedaccording to a requirement in an actual application scenario, and presetin the modem. The specific manner used for reducing the codec rate ofthe collected voice data is not specifically limited herein in thisembodiment of the present invention.

When the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, the modem reduces atransmission parameter of collected video data. The transmissionparameter of the video data includes one or more of the following:resolution of image data in the video data, a frame rate of image datain the video data, or a codec rate of voice data in the video data.

Further, by means of SDP negotiation, a remote device communicating withthe modem may further be caused to reduce resolution of image data inthe collected video data and/or a frame rate of image data in the videodata.

It should be noted that, for reducing a codec rate of voice data incollected video data, refer to a specific description of reducing acodec rate of collected voice data in this embodiment of the presentinvention. Details are not described herein again in this embodiment ofthe present invention.

It should be noted that, the handover policy in this embodiment of thepresent invention may also be automatically selected when the modemdetermines that a congestion occurs in the network, or may be sent tothe modem by the AP after a user directly selects to trigger thehandover policy to save traffic when the VoLTE traffic does not reachthe limiting value of the VoLTE traffic.

Further, to enable displaying of the VoLTE traffic obtained throughstatistics collection to the user for the user to query, as shown inFIG. 5, if VoLTE services using an IMS protocol stack are deployed on amodem side and an AP side, after step 411 is performed, the method mayfurther include the following step 418 to step 420.

418. The AP obtains the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic thatis obtained through statistics collection by the modem.

There may be two manners in which the AP obtains the first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statisticscollection by the modem.

Manner 1: The AP receives the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic that is sent by the modem.

The modem may periodically report a first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic that is obtained through statistics collection by the modem, sothat the AP may receive the first statistics value of the VoLTE trafficthat is sent by the modem.

Manner 2: The AP queries traffic data obtained through statisticscollection by the modem, to obtain the first statistics value of theVoLTE traffic.

The AP may proactively query the traffic data obtained throughstatistics collection by the modem, to obtain the first statistics valueof the VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statistics collection bythe modem.

419. The AP adds the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic to thesecond statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

After obtaining the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that isobtained through statistics collection by the modem, the AP may add thefirst statistics value of the VoLTE traffic to the second statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic, to obtain all generated VoLTE traffic.

420. The AP displays the second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic toa user.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment of the present invention,when VoLTE services using an IMS protocol stack are deployed on a modemside and on an AP side, the second statistics value of the VoLTE trafficthat is displayed to the user by the AP in step 420 is a secondstatistics value that is obtained after the AP adds the first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statisticscollection by the modem to the second statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic.

Certainly, if all VoLTE services using an IMS protocol stack aredeployed on the modem side, to display the VoLTE traffic that isobtained through statistics collection to the user, after step 405 isperformed, step 418 is performed, and the obtained first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic is directly displayed to the user, so as todisplay the VoLTE traffic to the user, for the user to query.

Further, in this embodiment of the present invention, statistics aboutVoLTE traffic generated during a call of the user may further becollected. That is, during the call of the user, step 403 to step 405are performed again, so as to obtain the VoLTE traffic generated duringthe call of the user. In addition, a first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic that is generated during the call and that is obtained throughstatistics collection may be sent to the AP, so that the AP displays theVoLTE traffic generated during the call to the user.

Further, in this embodiment of the present invention, statistics aboutVoLTE traffic generated when a VoLTE voice service is transmitted andVoLTE traffic generated when a VoLTE video service is transmitted mayfurther be separately collected. In an application scenario, when a PDNrequired by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE voice service and a PDNrequired by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE video service are the sameand are both the first PDN, after step 404 is performed, if the APNcorresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet is the APNof the first PDN, a port number of a port for transmitting the first IPpacket may further be determined. When the port number of the port fortransmitting the first IP packet is a port number of a port fortransmitting the VoLTE voice service, the packet length of the first IPpacket is added to a statistics value of VoLTE voice traffic. When theport number of the port for transmitting the first IP packet is a portnumber of a port for transmitting the VoLTE video service, the packetlength of the first IP packet is added to a statistics value of VoLTEvideo traffic. In another application scenario, when a PDN required by abearer that establishes a VoLTE voice service and a PDN required by abearer that establishes a VoLTE video service are different, after step404 is performed, it may be directly determined whether the APNcorresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet is an APNof the PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE voice service,or an APN of the PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE videoservice. When the APN corresponding to the first IP address of the firstIP packet is the APN of the PDN required by a bearer that establishes aVoLTE voice service, the packet length of the first IP packet is addedto a statistics value of VoLTE voice traffic. When the APN correspondingto the first IP address of the first IP packet is the APN of the PDNrequired by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE video service, the packetlength of the first IP packet is added to a statistics value of VoLTEvideo traffic. Certainly, statistics about traffic corresponding to eachapplication or process may further be collected, so as to implementseparate statistics collection and separate restriction.

According to the traffic statistics collection method provided in thisembodiment of the present invention, when a modem detects a first IPpacket, an APN corresponding to an obtained first IP address of thefirst IP packet is obtained from an in-memory database according to thefirst IP address of the first IP packet, and when the APN correspondingto the first IP address of the first IP packet is an APN of a PDNrequired by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service, an obtainedpacket length of the first IP packet is added to a first statisticsvalue of VoLTE traffic, so as to collect statistics about the VoLTEtraffic. In this way, compared with the prior art in which statisticsabout traffic on only an AP side can be collected, statistics abouttraffic generated when a user makes an audio-video call by using an LTEnetwork is collected.

In addition, when an AP detects a second IP packet, an APN correspondingto an obtained second IP address of the second IP packet is obtainedfrom the in-memory database according to the second IP address of thesecond IP packet, when the APN corresponding to the second IP address ofthe second IP packet is an APN of a PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a VoLTE service, an obtained packet length of the second IPpacket is added to a second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic, andwhen the APN corresponding to the second IP address of the second IPpacket is an APN of a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a dataservice, the obtained packet length of the second IP packet is added toa statistics value of data traffic, so as to separately collectstatistics about the data traffic and the VoLTE traffic. Based on this,the data traffic and the VoLTE traffic may be separately restricted, toavoid an incorrect restriction. When the VoLTE traffic is restricted,user traffic can be saved without affecting use of an audio-videoservice by a user. In addition, multiple handover policies are providedfor the user to select. In this way, when the VoLTE traffic isrestricted, a VoLTE service may be transmitted according to a selectionby the user, thereby improving user experience.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a trafficstatistics collection method. As shown in FIG. 6, the method may includethe following steps.

501. A modem obtains an IP address of a first PDN.

502. The modem stores the IP address of the first PDN and an APN of thefirst PDN corresponding to each other in an in-memory database.

503. When the modem detects a first IP packet, obtain a first IP addressof the first IP packet, and obtain a packet length of the first IPpacket.

504. The modem obtains, from the in-memory database, an APNcorresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet.

After the modem obtains, from the in-memory database, the APNcorresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet, todetermine whether traffic generated when the first IP packet istransmitted is VoLTE traffic, the modem may determine whether theobtained APN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IPpacket is an APN of a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTEservice, that is, the APN of the first PDN.

505. When the APN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IPpacket is the APN of the first PDN, the modem adds the packet length ofthe first IP packet to a first statistics value of VoLTE traffic.

When the modem determines that the obtained APN corresponding to thefirst IP address of the first IP packet is not an APN of a PDN requiredby a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service, that is, when the APNcorresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet is not theAPN of the first PDN, the modem does not perform any processing.

506. When an AP detects a second IP packet, obtain a packet length ofthe second IP packet.

507. The AP adds the packet length of the second IP packet to astatistics value of traffic.

508. The AP obtains the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic thatis obtained through statistics collection by the modem.

Further, in a possible implementation, step 508 may be specifically:receiving, by the AP, the first statistics value of the VoLTE trafficthat is sent by the modem. Alternatively, in another possibleimplementation, step 508 may be specifically: querying, by the AP,traffic data obtained through collection by the modem, to obtain thefirst statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

509. The AP adds the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic to thestatistics value of the traffic.

After obtaining the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that isobtained through statistics collection by the modem, the AP may add theobtained first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic to the statisticsvalue of the traffic, so as to collect statistics about all the trafficgenerated when the user uses the user equipment. Further, the AP mayfurther display the statistics value of the traffic that is obtainedthrough statistics collection to the user, making it convenient for theuser to query the statistics value of the traffic.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment of the present invention,the statistics value of the traffic that is displayed to the user by theAP is a statistics value of the traffic that is obtained after the APadds the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is obtainedthrough statistics collection by the modem to the statistics value ofthe traffic.

It should be noted that, for specific descriptions in step 501 to step509 in this embodiment of the present invention, refer to specificdescriptions of corresponding content in step 401 to step 405 in anotherembodiment of the present invention and in step 301 to step 304 inanother embodiment. Details are not described herein again in thisembodiment of the present invention.

According to the traffic statistics collection method provided in thisembodiment of the present invention, a modem obtains, through statisticscollection, a first statistics value of VoLTE traffic, and when an APdetects a second IP packet, an obtained packet length of the second IPpacket is added to a statistics value of traffic, the first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statisticscollection by the modem is obtained, and the first statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic is added to the statistics value of the traffic.Compared with the prior art in which statistics about traffic on only anAP side can be collected, completeness of traffic statistics collectionis ensured.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a trafficstatistics collection apparatus. As shown in FIG. 7, the apparatus mayinclude an obtaining unit 61 and an addition unit 62.

The obtaining unit 61 is configured to: when a first Internet ProtocolIP packet is detected, obtain a first IP address of the first IP packet,obtain a packet length of the first IP packet, and obtain, from anin-memory database, an access point name APN corresponding to the firstIP address of the first IP packet.

The addition unit 62 is configured to: when the APN that corresponds tothe first IP address of the first IP packet and that is obtained by theobtaining unit 61 is an APN of a first public data network PDN, add thepacket length of the first IP packet to a first statistics value ofvoice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic, where the first PDN isa PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the obtaining unit61 is further configured to obtain an IP address of the first PDN beforethe first Internet Protocol IP packet is detected.

As shown in FIG. 8, the apparatus may further include a storage unit 63.

The storage unit 63 is configured to store the IP address of the firstPDN that is obtained by the obtaining unit 61 and the APN of the firstPDN corresponding to each other in the in-memory database.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, when the first IPpacket is a packet received by the traffic statistics collectionapparatus, the first IP address is a source IP address of the first IPpacket. When the first IP packet is a packet that needs to be sent to anetwork side by the traffic statistics collection apparatus, the firstIP address is a destination IP address of the first IP packet.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the obtaining unit61 is further configured to obtain a second statistics value of theVoLTE traffic that is obtained through statistics collection by anapplication processor AP.

The addition unit 62 is further configured to add the second statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained by the obtaining unit 61 tothe first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the obtaining unit61 is specifically configured to: receive the second statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic that is sent by the AP; or query traffic data obtainedthrough statistics collection by the AP, to obtain the second statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the obtaining unit61 is specifically configured to: send a first PDN registration requestto a network side, where the first PDN registration request includes theAPN of the first PDN, so that the network side obtains the IP address ofthe first PDN according to the APN of the first PDN; and receive the IPaddress of the first PDN that is sent by the network side.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the apparatus mayfurther include a determining unit 64 and a transmission unit 65.

The determining unit 64 is configured to determine whether the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to alimiting value of the VoLTE traffic.

The transmission unit 65 is configured to: when the determining unit 64determines that the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic isgreater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic,transmit a VoLTE service according to a handover policy, where the VoLTEservice is a VoLTE voice service or a VoLTE video service.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the apparatus mayfurther include a receiving unit 66.

The receiving unit 66 is configured to: before the determining unit 64determines whether the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic isgreater than or equal to a limiting value of the VoLTE traffic, receivethe limiting value of the VoLTE traffic that is sent by the AP.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the receiving unit66 is further configured to: before the transmission unit 65 transmitsthe VoLTE service according to the handover policy, receive the handoverpolicy sent by the AP, where the handover policy is sent by the AP afterthe AP receives a selection trigger of a user for the handover policy.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the handoverpolicy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic isgreater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic,transmission of the VoLTE voice service and transmission of the VoLTEvideo service are both unrestricted.

The transmission unit 65 is specifically configured to: when the VoLTEservice is the VoLTE voice service, transmit collected voice data byusing an LTE network; and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE videoservice, transmit collected voice data and image data by using the LTEnetwork.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the handoverpolicy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic isgreater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic,transmission of the VoLTE voice service is unrestricted, andtransmission of the VoLTE video service is restricted.

The transmission unit 65 is specifically configured to: when the VoLTEservice is the VoLTE voice service, transmit collected voice data byusing an LTE network; and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE videoservice, switch a video mode to a voice mode, and transmit collectedvoice data by using the LTE network.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the handoverpolicy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic isgreater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic,transmission of the VoLTE voice service and transmission of the VoLTEvideo service are both restricted.

The transmission unit 65 is specifically configured to: when the VoLTEservice is the VoLTE voice service, perform a handover from an LTEnetwork to a 2nd generation mobile communications technology 2G/3rdgeneration mobile communications technology 3G network, and transmitcollected voice data by using a circuit switched CS domain or a packetswitched PS domain; and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE videoservice, switch a video mode to a voice mode, and transmit collectedvoice data by using the CS domain or the PS domain.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the handoverpolicy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic isgreater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic,reducing a codec rate of the VoLTE voice service, and reducing atransmission parameter of the VoLTE video service.

The transmission unit 65 is specifically configured to: when the VoLTEservice is the VoLTE voice service, reduce a codec rate of collectedvoice data; and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service,reduce a transmission parameter of collected video data.

The transmission parameter of the video data includes one or more of thefollowing: resolution of image data in the video data, a frame rate ofimage data in the video data, or a codec rate of voice data in the videodata.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the apparatus mayfurther include a sending unit 67.

The sending unit is configured to: after the addition unit 62 adds thepacket length of the first IP packet to the first statistics value ofthe voice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic, send the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained by the additionunit 62 to the AP.

It should be noted that, for specific working processes of thefunctional modules in the traffic statistics collection apparatus inthis embodiment of the present invention, refer to specific descriptionsof a corresponding process in the method embodiment, and details are notdescribed in this embodiment of the present invention again.

According to the traffic statistics collection apparatus provided inthis embodiment of the present invention, when a first IP packet isdetected, an APN corresponding to an obtained first IP address of thefirst IP packet is obtained from an in-memory database according to thefirst IP address of the first IP packet, and when the APN correspondingto the first IP address of the first IP packet is an APN of a PDNrequired by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service, an obtainedpacket length of the first IP packet is added to a first statisticsvalue of VoLTE traffic, so as to collect statistics about the VoLTEtraffic. In this way, compared with the prior art in which statisticsabout traffic on only an AP side can be collected, statistics abouttraffic generated when a user makes an audio-video call by using an LTEnetwork is collected.

In addition, when an AP detects a second IP packet, an APN correspondingto an obtained second IP address of the second IP packet is obtainedfrom the in-memory database according to the second IP address of thesecond IP packet, when the APN corresponding to the second IP address ofthe second IP packet is an APN of a PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a VoLTE service, an obtained packet length of the second IPpacket is added to a second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic, andwhen the APN corresponding to the second IP address of the second IPpacket is an APN of a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a dataservice, the obtained packet length of the second IP packet is added toa statistics value of data traffic, so as to separately collectstatistics about the data traffic and the VoLTE traffic. Based on this,the data traffic and the VoLTE traffic may be separately restricted, toavoid an incorrect restriction. When the VoLTE traffic is restricted,user traffic can be saved without affecting use of an audio-videoservice by a user. In addition, multiple handover policies are providedfor the user to select. In this way, when the VoLTE traffic isrestricted, a VoLTE service may be transmitted according to a selectionby the user, thereby improving user experience.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a trafficstatistics collection apparatus. As shown in FIG. 9, the apparatus mayinclude an obtaining unit 71 and an addition unit 72.

The obtaining unit 71 is configured to: when a second Internet ProtocolIP packet is detected, obtain a second IP address of the second IPpacket, obtain a packet length of the second IP packet, and obtain, froman in-memory database, an access point name APN corresponding to thesecond IP address of the second IP packet.

The addition unit 72 is configured to: when the APN that corresponds tothe second IP address of the second IP packet and that is obtained bythe obtaining unit 71 is an APN of a first public data network PDN, addthe packet length of the second IP packet to a second statistics valueof voice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic, where the first PDNis a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, when the second IPpacket is a packet received by the traffic statistics collectionapparatus, the second IP address is a source IP address of the second IPpacket. When the second IP packet is a packet that needs to be sent to anetwork side by the traffic statistics collection apparatus, the secondIP address is a destination IP address of the second IP packet.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, as shown in FIG.10, the apparatus may further include a sending unit 73.

The sending unit 73 is configured to: after the addition unit 72 addsthe packet length of the IP packet to the second statistics value of thevoice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic, send the secondstatistics value of the VoLTE traffic to a modem.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the obtaining unit71 is further configured to obtain a first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic that is obtained through statistics collection by the modem.

The addition unit 72 is further configured to add the first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic to the second statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic.

The apparatus may further include a display unit 74.

The display unit 74 is configured to display the second statistics valueof the VoLTE traffic that is obtained by the addition unit 72 to a user.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the obtaining unit71 is specifically configured to: receive the first statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic that is sent by the modem; or query traffic dataobtained through statistics collection by the modem, to obtain the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the addition unit72 is further configured to: when the APN that corresponds to the secondIP address of the second IP packet and that is obtained by the obtainingunit 71 is an APN of a second PDN, add the packet length of the secondIP packet to a statistics value of data traffic. The second PDN is a PDNrequired by a bearer that establishes a data service.

The display unit 74 is further configured to display the statisticsvalue of the data traffic that is obtained by the addition unit 72 tothe user.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the obtaining unit71 is further configured to obtain an IP address of the second PDNbefore the obtaining unit 71 detects the second Internet Protocol IPpacket.

The apparatus may further include a storage unit 75.

The storage unit 75 is configured to store the IP address of the secondPDN that is obtained by the obtaining unit 71 and the APN of the secondPDN corresponding to each other in the in-memory database.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the obtaining unit71 is specifically configured to: send a second PDN registration requestto a network side by using the modem, where the second PDN registrationrequest includes the APN of the second PDN, so that the network sideobtains the IP address of the second PDN according to the APN of thesecond PDN; and receive the IP address of the second PDN that is sent bythe network side by using the modem.

It should be noted that, for specific working processes of thefunctional modules in the traffic statistics collection in thisembodiment of the present invention, refer to specific descriptions of acorresponding process in the method embodiment, and details are notdescribed in this embodiment of the present invention again.

According to the traffic statistics collection apparatus provided inthis embodiment of the present invention, when a first IP packet isdetected, an APN corresponding to an obtained first IP address of thefirst IP packet is obtained from an in-memory database according to thefirst IP address of the first IP packet, and when the APN correspondingto the first IP address of the first IP packet is an APN of a PDNrequired by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service, an obtainedpacket length of the first IP packet is added to a first statisticsvalue of VoLTE traffic, so as to collect statistics about the VoLTEtraffic. In this way, compared with the prior art in which statisticsabout traffic on only an AP side can be collected, statistics abouttraffic generated when a user makes an audio-video call by using an LTEnetwork is collected.

In addition, when an AP detects a second IP packet, an APN correspondingto an obtained second IP address of the second IP packet is obtainedfrom the in-memory database according to the second IP address of thesecond IP packet, when the APN corresponding to the second IP address ofthe second IP packet is an APN of a PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a VoLTE service, an obtained packet length of the second IPpacket is added to a second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic, andwhen the APN corresponding to the second IP address of the second IPpacket is an APN of a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a dataservice, the obtained packet length of the second IP packet is added toa statistics value of data traffic, so as to separately collectstatistics about the data traffic and the VoLTE traffic. Based on this,the data traffic and the VoLTE traffic may be separately restricted, toavoid an incorrect restriction. When the VoLTE traffic is restricted,user traffic can be saved without affecting use of an audio-videoservice by a user. In addition, multiple handover policies are providedfor the user to select. In this way, when the VoLTE traffic isrestricted, a VoLTE service may be transmitted according to a selectionby the user, thereby improving user experience.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a trafficstatistics collection apparatus. As shown in FIG. 11, the apparatus mayinclude an obtaining unit 81 and an addition unit 82.

The obtaining unit 81 is configured to: when a second Internet ProtocolIP packet is detected, obtain a packet length of the second IP packet.

The addition unit 82 is configured to add the packet length of thesecond IP packet that is obtained by the obtaining unit 81 to astatistics value of traffic.

The obtaining unit 81 is further configured to obtain a first statisticsvalue of voice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic that isobtained through statistics collection by a modem.

The addition unit 82 is further configured to add the first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained by the obtaining unit 81 tothe statistics value of the traffic.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the obtaining unit81 is specifically configured to: receive the first statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic that is sent by the modem; or query traffic dataobtained through statistics collection by the modem, to obtain the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

It should be noted that, for specific working processes of thefunctional modules in the traffic statistics collection in thisembodiment of the present invention, refer to specific descriptions of acorresponding process in the method embodiment, and details are notdescribed in this embodiment of the present invention again.

According to the traffic statistics collection apparatus provided inthis embodiment of the present invention, a first statistics value ofVoLTE traffic is obtained through statistics collection, and when an APdetects a second IP packet, an obtained packet length of the second IPpacket is added to a statistics value of traffic, the first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statisticscollection by the modem is obtained, and the first statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic is added to the statistics value of the traffic.Compared with the prior art in which statistics about traffic on only anAP side can be collected, completeness of traffic statistics collectionis ensured.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a traffic statisticscollection apparatus. As shown in FIG. 12, the apparatus may include aprocessor 91.

The processor 91 is configured to: when a first Internet Protocol IPpacket is detected, obtain a first IP address of the first IP packet,obtain a packet length of the first IP packet, obtain, from an in-memorydatabase, an access point name APN corresponding to the first IP addressof the first IP packet, and when the APN corresponding to the first IPaddress of the first IP packet is an APN of a first public data networkPDN, add the packet length of the first IP packet to a first statisticsvalue of voice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic, where thefirst PDN is a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTEservice.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the processor 91is further configured to obtain an IP address of the first PDN beforethe first Internet Protocol IP packet is detected.

The apparatus may further include a memory 92.

The memory 92 is configured to store the IP address of the first PDNthat is obtained by the processor 91 and the APN of the first PDNcorresponding to each other in the in-memory database.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, when the first IPpacket is a packet received by the traffic statistics collectionapparatus, the first IP address is a source IP address of the first IPpacket. When the first IP packet is a packet that needs to be sent to anetwork side by the traffic statistics collection apparatus, the firstIP address is a destination IP address of the first IP packet.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the processor 91is further configured to: obtain a second statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic that is obtained through statistics collection by an applicationprocessor AP, and add the second statistics value of the VoLTE trafficto the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the apparatus mayfurther include a receiver 93, configured to receive the secondstatistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is sent by the AP.

Alternatively, the processor 91 is specifically configured to querytraffic data obtained through statistics collection by the AP, to obtainthe second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the apparatus mayfurther include a transmitter 94, configured to send a first PDNregistration request to a network side. The first PDN registrationrequest includes the APN of the first PDN, so that the network sideobtains the IP address of the first PDN according to the APN of thefirst PDN.

The receiver 94 is further configured to receive the IP address of thefirst PDN that is sent by the network side.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the processor 91is further configured to: determine whether the first statistics valueof the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to a limiting value of theVoLTE traffic, and when the first statistics value of the VoLTE trafficis greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic,transmit a VoLTE service according to a handover policy, where the VoLTEservice is a VoLTE voice service or a VoLTE video service.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the receiver 94 isfurther configured to: before the processor 91 determines whether thefirst statistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal toa limiting value of the VoLTE traffic, receive the limiting value of theVoLTE traffic that is sent by the AP.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the receiver 94 isfurther configured to: before the processor 91 transmits the VoLTEservice according to the handover policy, receive the handover policysent by the AP. The handover policy is sent by the AP after the APreceives a selection trigger of a user for the handover policy.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the handoverpolicy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic isgreater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic,transmission of the VoLTE voice service and transmission of the VoLTEvideo service are both unrestricted.

The processor 91 is specifically configured to: when the VoLTE serviceis the VoLTE voice service, transmit collected voice data by using anLTE network; and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service,transmit collected voice data and image data by using the LTE network.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the handoverpolicy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic isgreater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic,transmission of the VoLTE voice service is unrestricted, andtransmission of the VoLTE video service is restricted.

The processor 91 is specifically configured to: when the VoLTE serviceis the VoLTE voice service, transmit collected voice data by using anLTE network; and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service,switch a video mode to a voice mode, and transmit collected voice databy using the LTE network.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the handoverpolicy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic isgreater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic,transmission of the VoLTE voice service and transmission of the VoLTEvideo service are both restricted.

The processor 91 is specifically configured to: when the VoLTE serviceis the VoLTE voice service, perform a handover from an LTE network to a2nd generation mobile communications technology 2G/3rd generation mobilecommunications technology 3G network, and transmit collected voice databy using a circuit switched CS domain or a packet switched PS domain;and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, switch a videomode to a voice mode, and transmit collected voice data by using the CSdomain or the PS domain.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the handoverpolicy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic isgreater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic,reducing a codec rate of the VoLTE voice service, and reducing atransmission parameter of the VoLTE video service.

The processor 91 is specifically configured to: when the VoLTE serviceis the VoLTE voice service, reduce a codec rate of collected voice data;and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, reduce atransmission parameter of collected video data.

The transmission parameter of the video data includes one or more of thefollowing: resolution of image data in the video data, a frame rate ofimage data in the video data, or a codec rate of voice data in the videodata.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the transmitter 94is further configured to: after the processor 91 adds the packet lengthof the first IP packet to the first statistics value of the voice overLong Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic, send the first statistics valueof the VoLTE traffic that is obtained by the processor 91 to the AP.

It should be noted that, for specific working processes of thefunctional modules in the traffic statistics collection in thisembodiment of the present invention, refer to specific descriptions of acorresponding process in the method embodiment, and details are notdescribed in this embodiment of the present invention again.

According to the traffic statistics collection apparatus provided inthis embodiment of the present invention, when a first IP packet isdetected, an APN corresponding to an obtained first IP address of thefirst IP packet is obtained from an in-memory database according to thefirst IP address of the first IP packet, and when the APN correspondingto the first IP address of the first IP packet is an APN of a PDNrequired by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service, an obtainedpacket length of the first IP packet is added to a first statisticsvalue of VoLTE traffic, so as to collect statistics about the VoLTEtraffic. In this way, compared with the prior art in which statisticsabout traffic on only an AP side can be collected, statistics abouttraffic generated when a user makes an audio-video call by using an LTEnetwork is collected.

In addition, when an AP detects a second IP packet, an APN correspondingto an obtained second IP address of the second IP packet is obtainedfrom the in-memory database according to the second IP address of thesecond IP packet, when the APN corresponding to the second IP address ofthe second IP packet is an APN of a PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a VoLTE service, an obtained packet length of the second IPpacket is added to a second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic, andwhen the APN corresponding to the second IP address of the second IPpacket is an APN of a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a dataservice, the obtained packet length of the second IP packet is added toa statistics value of data traffic, so as to separately collectstatistics about the data traffic and the VoLTE traffic. Based on this,the data traffic and the VoLTE traffic may be separately restricted, toavoid an incorrect restriction. When the VoLTE traffic is restricted,user traffic can be saved without affecting use of an audio-videoservice by a user. In addition, multiple handover policies are providedfor the user to select. In this way, when the VoLTE traffic isrestricted, a VoLTE service may be transmitted according to a selectionby the user, thereby improving user experience.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a trafficstatistics collection apparatus. As shown in FIG. 13, the apparatus mayinclude a processor 1001.

The processor 1001 is configured to: when a second Internet Protocol IPpacket is detected, obtain a second IP address of the second IP packet,obtain a packet length of the second IP packet, obtain, from anin-memory database, an access point name APN corresponding to the secondIP address of the second IP packet, and when the APN corresponding tothe second IP address of the second IP packet is an APN of a firstpublic data network PDN, add the packet length of the second IP packetto a second statistics value of voice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTEtraffic, where the first PDN is a PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a VoLTE service.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, when the second IPpacket is a packet received by the traffic statistics collectionapparatus, the second IP address is a source IP address of the second IPpacket. When the second IP packet is a packet that needs to be sent to anetwork side by the traffic statistics collection apparatus, the secondIP address is a destination IP address of the second IP packet.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the apparatus mayfurther include a transmitter 1002.

The transmitter 1002 is configured to: after the processor 1001 adds thepacket length of the IP packet to the second statistics value of thevoice over Long Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic, send the secondstatistics value of the VoLTE traffic to a modem.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the processor 1001is further configured to: obtain a first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic that is obtained through statistics collection by the modem, addthe first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic to the second statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic, and display the second statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic to a user.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the apparatus mayfurther include a receiver 1003, further configured to receive the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is sent by the modem.

Alternatively, the processor 1001 is specifically configured to querytraffic data obtained through statistics collection by the modem, toobtain the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the processor 1001is further configured to: when the APN corresponding to the second IPaddress of the second IP packet is an APN of a second PDN, add thepacket length of the second IP packet to a statistics value of datatraffic, and display the statistics value of the data traffic to theuser, where the second PDN is a PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a data service.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the processor 1001is further configured to obtain an IP address of the second PDN beforethe second Internet Protocol IP packet is detected.

The apparatus may further include a memory 1004.

The memory 1004 is configured to store the IP address of the second PDNthat is obtained by the processor 1001 and the APN of the second PDNcorresponding to each other in the in-memory database.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the transmitter1002 is further configured to send a second PDN registration request toa network side by using the modem. The second PDN registration requestincludes the APN of the second PDN, so that the network side obtains theIP address of the second PDN according to the APN of the second PDN.

The receiver 1003 is further configured to receive the IP address of thesecond PDN that is sent by the network side by using the modem.

It should be noted that, for specific working processes of thefunctional modules in the traffic statistics collection in thisembodiment of the present invention, refer to specific descriptions of acorresponding process in the method embodiment, and details are notdescribed in this embodiment of the present invention again.

According to the traffic statistics collection apparatus provided inthis embodiment of the present invention, when a first IP packet isdetected, an APN corresponding to an obtained first IP address of thefirst IP packet is obtained from an in-memory database according to thefirst IP address of the first IP packet, and when the APN correspondingto the first IP address of the first IP packet is an APN of a PDNrequired by a bearer that establishes a VoLTE service, an obtainedpacket length of the first IP packet is added to a first statisticsvalue of VoLTE traffic, so as to collect statistics about the VoLTEtraffic. In this way, compared with the prior art in which statisticsabout traffic on only an AP side can be collected, statistics abouttraffic generated when a user makes an audio-video call by using an LTEnetwork is collected.

In addition, when an AP detects a second IP packet, an APN correspondingto an obtained second IP address of the second IP packet is obtainedfrom the in-memory database according to the second IP address of thesecond IP packet, when the APN corresponding to the second IP address ofthe second IP packet is an APN of a PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a VoLTE service, an obtained packet length of the second IPpacket is added to a second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic, andwhen the APN corresponding to the second IP address of the second IPpacket is an APN of a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a dataservice, the obtained packet length of the second IP packet is added toa statistics value of data traffic, so as to separately collectstatistics about the data traffic and the VoLTE traffic. Based on this,the data traffic and the VoLTE traffic may be separately restricted, toavoid an incorrect restriction. When the VoLTE traffic is restricted,user traffic can be saved without affecting use of an audio-videoservice by a user. In addition, multiple handover policies are providedfor the user to select. In this way, when the VoLTE traffic isrestricted, a VoLTE service may be transmitted according to a selectionby the user, thereby improving user experience.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a trafficstatistics collection apparatus. As shown in FIG. 14, the apparatus mayinclude a processor 1101.

The processor 1101 is configured to: when a second Internet Protocol IPpacket is detected, obtain a packet length of the second IP packet, addthe packet length of the second IP packet to a statistics value oftraffic, obtain a first statistics value of voice over Long TermEvolution LTE VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statisticscollection by a modem, and add the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic to the statistics value of the traffic.

In this embodiment of the present invention, further, the apparatus mayfurther include a transmitter 1102, configured to receive the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic that is sent by the modem.

Alternatively, the processor 1101 is specifically configured to querytraffic data obtained through statistics collection by the modem, toobtain the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

It should be noted that, for specific working processes of thefunctional modules in the traffic statistics collection in thisembodiment of the present invention, refer to specific descriptions of acorresponding process in the method embodiment, and details are notdescribed in this embodiment of the present invention again.

According to the traffic statistics collection apparatus provided inthis embodiment of the present invention, a first statistics value ofVoLTE traffic is obtained through statistics collection, and when an APdetects a second IP packet, an obtained packet length of the second IPpacket is added to a statistics value of traffic, the first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statisticscollection by the modem is obtained, and the first statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic is added to the statistics value of the traffic.Compared with the prior art in which statistics about traffic on only anAP side can be collected, completeness of traffic statistics collectionis ensured.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal device.As shown in FIG. 15, the terminal device may include:

a modem 1201, configured to: when a first IP packet is detected, obtaina first IP address of the first IP packet, obtain a packet length of thefirst IP packet, obtain, from an in-memory database, an access pointname APN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet,and when the APN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IPpacket is an APN of a first public data network PDN, add the packetlength of the first IP packet to a first statistics value of voice overLong Term Evolution LTE VoLTE traffic; and

an AP 1202, configured to: when a second IP packet is detected, obtain asecond IP address of the second IP packet, obtain a packet length of thesecond IP packet, obtain, from the in-memory database, an APNcorresponding to the second IP address of the second IP packet, and whenthe APN corresponding to the second IP address of the second IP packetis an APN of the first PDN, add the packet length of the second IPpacket to a second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.

The first PDN is a PDN required by a bearer that establishes a VoLTEservice.

According to the terminal device provided in this embodiment of thepresent invention, when a modem detects a first IP packet, an APNcorresponding to an obtained first IP address of the first IP packet isobtained from an in-memory database according to the first IP address ofthe first IP packet, and when the APN corresponding to the first IPaddress of the first IP packet is an APN of a PDN required by a bearerthat establishes a VoLTE service, an obtained packet length of the firstIP packet is added to a first statistics value of VoLTE traffic, so asto collect statistics about the VoLTE traffic. In this way, comparedwith the prior art in which statistics about traffic on only an AP sidecan be collected, statistics about traffic generated when a user makesan audio-video call by using an LTE network is collected.

The foregoing descriptions about implementation manners allow a personskilled in the art to understand that, for the purpose of convenient andbrief description, division of the foregoing functional modules is takenas an example for illustration. In actual application, the foregoingfunctions can be allocated to different modules and implementedaccording to a requirement, that is, an inner structure of an apparatusis divided into different functional modules to implement all or part ofthe functions described above.

In the several embodiments provided in the present application, itshould be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method may beimplemented in other manners. For example, the described apparatusembodiment is merely an example. For example, the module or unitdivision is merely logical function division and may be other divisionin actual implementation. For example, a plurality of units orcomponents may be combined or integrated into another apparatus, or somefeatures may be ignored or not performed. In addition, the displayed ordiscussed mutual couplings or direct couplings or communicationconnections may be implemented by using some interfaces. The indirectcouplings or communication connections between the apparatuses or unitsmay be implemented in electronic, mechanical, or other forms.

The units described as separate parts may or may not be physicallyseparate, and parts displayed as units may be one or more physicalunits, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on differentplaces. Some or all of the units maybe selected according to actualneeds to achieve the objectives of the solutions of the embodiments.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the presentinvention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each of theunits may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integratedinto one unit. The integrated unit may be implemented in a form ofhardware, or may be implemented in a form of a software functional unit.

When the integrated unit is implemented in the form of a softwarefunctional unit and sold or used as an independent product, theintegrated unit may be stored in a readable storage medium. Based onsuch an understanding, the technical solutions of the present inventionessentially, or the part contributing to the prior art, or all or someof the technical solutions may be implemented in the form of a softwareproduct. The software product is stored in a storage medium and includesseveral instructions for instructing a device (which may be asingle-chip microcomputer, a chip or the like) or a processor(processor) to perform all or some of the steps of the methods describedin the embodiments of the present invention. The foregoing storagemedium includes: any medium that can store program code, such as a USBflash drive, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM, Read-OnlyMemory), a random access memory (RAM, Random Access Memory), a magneticdisk, or an optical disc.

The foregoing descriptions are merely specific implementation manners ofthe present invention, but are not intended to limit the protectionscope of the present invention. Any variation or replacement readilyfigured out by a person skilled in the art within the technical scopedisclosed in the present invention shall fall within the protectionscope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of thepresent invention shall be subject to the protection scope of theclaims.

What is claimed is:
 1. A traffic statistics collection method,comprising: when a modem detects a Internet Protocol (IP) packet,obtaining a first IP address of the first IP packet and a packet lengthof the first IP packet; obtaining, by the modem from an in-memorydatabase, an access point name (APN) corresponding to the first IPaddress of the first IP packet; and when the APN corresponding to thefirst IP address of the first IP packet is an APN of a first public datanetwork (PDN), adding, by the modem, the packet length of the first IPpacket to a first statistics value of voice over Long Term Evolution(VoLTE) traffic, wherein the first PDN is a PDN required by a bearerthat establishes a VoLTE service; determining, by the modem, whether thefirst statistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal toa limiting value of the VoLTE traffic; when the first statistics valueof the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value ofthe VoLTE traffic, transmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE service accordingto a handover policy, wherein the VoLTE service is a VoLTE voice serviceor a VoLTE video service; and when the handover policy is a firsthandover policy: the first handover policy is: when the first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limitingvalue of the VoLTE traffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service andtransmission of the VoLTE video service are both unrestricted; andtransmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE service according to the firsthandover policy comprises: when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voiceservice, transmitting, by the modem, collected voice data by using anLTE network; and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service,transmitting, by the modem, collected voice data and image data by usingthe LTE network.
 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein beforedetecting, by the modem, a first Internet Protocol (IP) packet, themethod further comprises: obtaining, by the modem, an IP address of thefirst PDN; storing, by the modem, the IP address of the first PDN andthe APN of the first PDN corresponding to each other in the in-memorydatabase; and wherein obtaining, by the modem, an IP address of thefirst PDN comprises: sending, by the modem, a first PDN registrationrequest to a network side, wherein the first PDN registration requestcomprises the APN of the first PDN, so that the network side obtains theIP address of the first PDN according to the APN of the first PDN, andreceiving, by the modem, the IP address of the first PDN that is sent bythe network side.
 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the methodfurther comprises: obtaining, by the modem, a second statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic that is obtained through statistics collection by anapplication processor (AP); and adding, by the modem, the secondstatistics value of the VoLTE traffic to the first statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic.
 4. The method according to claim 3, whereinobtaining, by the modem, a second statistics value of the VoLTE trafficthat is obtained through statistics collection by an applicationprocessor (AP) comprises: receiving, by the modem, the second statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic that is sent by the AP; or querying, by themodem, traffic data obtained through statistics collection by the AP, toobtain the second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.
 5. The methodaccording to claim 1, wherein: when the handover policy is a secondhandover policy: the second handover policy is: when the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to thelimiting value of the VoLTE traffic, transmission of the VoLTE voiceservice is unrestricted, and transmission of the VoLTE video service isrestricted; and transmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE service according tothe second handover policy comprises: when the VoLTE service is theVoLTE voice service, transmitting, by the modem, collected voice data byusing an LTE network; and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE videoservice, switching, by the modem, a video mode to a voice mode, andtransmitting collected voice data by using the LTE network.
 6. Themethod according to claim 1, wherein: when the handover policy is athird handover policy: the third handover policy is: when the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to thelimiting value of the VoLTE traffic, transmission of the VoLTE voiceservice and transmission of the VoLTE video service are both restricted;and transmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE service according to the thirdhandover policy comprises: when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voiceservice, performing, by the modem, a handover from an LTE network to a2nd generation mobile communications technology 2G/3rd generation mobilecommunications technology 3G network, and transmitting collected voicedata by using a circuit switched (CS) domain or a packet switched (PS)domain; and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service,switching, by the modem, a video mode to a voice mode, and transmittingcollected voice data by using the CS domain or the PS domain.
 7. Themethod according to claim 1, wherein: when the handover policy is afourth handover policy: the fourth handover policy is: when the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to thelimiting value of the VoLTE traffic, reducing a codec rate of the VoLTEvoice service, and reducing a transmission parameter of the VoLTE videoservice; and transmitting, by the modem, a VoLTE service according tothe fourth handover policy comprises: when the VoLTE service is theVoLTE voice service, reducing, by the modem, a codec rate of collectedvoice data; and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service,reducing, by the modem, a transmission parameter of collected videodata, wherein the transmission parameter of the video data comprises oneor more of the following: resolution of image data in the video data, aframe rate of image data in the video data, or a codec rate of voicedata in the video data.
 8. A traffic statistics collection apparatus,comprising: at least one processor configured to: when a first InternetProtocol (IP) packet is detected, obtain a first IP address of the firstIP packet and a packet length of the first IP packet; obtain, from anin-memory database, an access point name (APN) corresponding to thefirst IP address of the first IP packet; when the APN corresponding tothe first IP address of the first IP packet is an APN of a first publicdata network (PDN), add the packet length of the first IP packet to afirst statistics value of voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE)traffic, wherein the first PDN is a PDN required by a bearer thatestablishes a VoLTE service; determine whether the first statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to a limiting valueof the VoLTE traffic; when the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic, transmit a VoLTE service according to a handover policy,wherein the VoLTE service is a VoLTE voice service or a VoLTE videoservice; and when the handover policy is a first handover policy: thefirst handover policy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTEtraffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service and transmission of theVoLTE video service are both unrestricted; and the at least oneprocessor is configured to: when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voiceservice, transmit collected voice data by using an LTE network; and whenthe VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, transmit collected voicedata and image data by using the LTE network.
 9. The apparatus accordingto claim 8, wherein: the at least one processor is further configured toobtain an IP address of the first PDN before the first Internet Protocol(IP) packet is detected; and the apparatus further comprises: a memoryconfigured to store the IP address of the first PDN that is obtained bythe at least one processor and the APN of the first PDN corresponding toeach other in the in-memory database; a transmitter configured to send afirst PDN registration request to a network side, wherein the first PDNregistration request comprises the APN of the first PDN, so that thenetwork side obtains the IP address of the first PDN according to theAPN of the first PDN; and a receiver configured to receive the IPaddress of the first PDN that is sent by the network side.
 10. Theapparatus according to claim 8, wherein the at least one processor isfurther configured to: obtain a second statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic that is obtained through statistics collection by an applicationprocessor AP; and add the second statistics value of the VoLTE trafficto the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.
 11. The apparatusaccording to claim 10, wherein: the apparatus further comprises areceiver configured to receive the second statistics value of the VoLTEtraffic that is sent by the AP; or the at least one processor isconfigured to query traffic data obtained through statistics collectionby the AP, to obtain the second statistics value of the VoLTE traffic.12. The apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising: a receiverconfigured to: before the at least one processor transmits the VoLTEservice according to the handover policy, receive the handover policysent by an application processor (AP), wherein the handover policy issent by the AP after the AP receives a selection trigger of a user forthe handover policy.
 13. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein:when the handover policy is a second handover policy: the secondhandover policy is: when the first statistics value of the VoLTE trafficis greater than or equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic,transmission of the VoLTE voice service is unrestricted, andtransmission of the VoLTE video service is restricted; and the at leastone processor is configured to: when the VoLTE service is the VoLTEvoice service, transmit collected voice data by using an LTE network;and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service, switch a videomode to a voice mode, and transmit collected voice data by using the LTEnetwork.
 14. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein: when thehandover policy is a third handover policy: the third handover policyis: when the first statistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater thanor equal to the limiting value of the VoLTE traffic, transmission of theVoLTE voice service and transmission of the VoLTE video service are bothrestricted; and the at least one processor is configured to: when theVoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, perform a handover from an LTEnetwork to a 2nd generation mobile communications technology 2G/3rdgeneration mobile communications technology 3G network, and transmitcollected voice data by using a circuit switched (CS) domain or a packetswitched (PS) domain; and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE videoservice, switch a video mode to a voice mode, and transmit collectedvoice data by using the CS domain or the PS domain.
 15. The apparatusaccording to claim 8, wherein: when the handover policy is a fourthhandover policy: the fourth handover policy is: when the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to thelimiting value of the VoLTE traffic, reducing a codec rate of the VoLTEvoice service, and reducing a transmission parameter of the VoLTE videoservice; and the at least one processor is configured to: when the VoLTEservice is the VoLTE voice service, reduce a codec rate of collectedvoice data; and when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE video service,reduce a transmission parameter of collected video data, wherein thetransmission parameter of the video data comprises one or more of thefollowing: resolution of image data in the video data, a frame rate ofimage data in the video data, or a codec rate of voice data in the videodata.
 16. A terminal device, comprising: a modem configured to: when afirst Internet Protocol (IP) packet is detected, obtain a first IPaddress of the first IP packet and a packet length of the first IPpacket, obtain, from an in-memory database, an access point name (APN)corresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet; when theAPN corresponding to the first IP address of the first IP packet is anAPN of a first public data network (PDN), add the packet length of thefirst IP packet to a first statistics value of voice over Long TermEvolution (VoLTE) traffic, wherein the first PDN is a PDN required by abearer that establishes a VoLTE service; determine whether the firststatistics value of the VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to alimiting value of the VoLTE traffic; when the first statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of theVoLTE traffic, transmit a VoLTE service according to a handover policy,wherein the VoLTE service is a VoLTE voice service or a VoLTE videoservice and the handover policy is: when the first statistics value ofthe VoLTE traffic is greater than or equal to the limiting value of theVoLTE traffic, transmission of the VoLTE voice service and transmissionof the VoLTE video service are both unrestricted; and whereintransmitting a VoLTE service according to the handover policy comprises:when the VoLTE service is the VoLTE voice service, transmit collectedvoice data by using an LTE network; and when the VoLTE service is theVoLTE video service, transmit collected voice data and image data byusing the LTE network; and an application processor (AP) configured to:when a second IP packet is detected, obtain a second IP address of thesecond IP packet and a packet length of the second IP packet, obtain,from the in-memory database, an APN corresponding to the second IPaddress of the second IP packet; and when the APN corresponding to thesecond IP address of the second IP packet is an APN of the first PDN,add the packet length of the second IP packet to a second statisticsvalue of the VoLTE traffic.